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The Big Idea Activity

How do we celebrate our country?

Make a Symbol Mobile

  California Standard 1.3 Students know and understand the symbols, icons, and traditions of the United States that provide continuity and a sense of community across time.

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Teaching Tips

Children will learn about American symbols and then make a mobile of their favorite symbols.

Additional Links

You may want to use this site to find more resources to teach your class about the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Find more examples of American symbols to share with your class.

Explore the history of symbols and the stories behind them with your students.


A Colonial Child

  California Standard 1.3 Students know and understand the symbols, icons, and traditions of the United States that provide continuity and a sense of community across time.

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Additional Links

Explain to children that colonial life was very different from life today. Explore an early New England colony with children. Visit Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. Help children understand yesterday's traditions.

Follow the directions to make a corn husk doll with your class.

Look at Eighteenth century clothing and help children play the Paper Doll game.

 

Abraham Lincoln

  California Standard 1.3.3 Identify American symbols, landmarks, and essential documents, such as the flag, bald eagle, Statue of Liberty, U.S. Constitution, and Declaration of Independence, and know the people and events associated with them.

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Additional Links

Visit Mrs. Huber's class in Sleepy Hollow, New York to learn more about the Civil War.

Visit Lincoln’s birthplace at the National Park Service Web site.